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A while ago my wife and I were ministering in Rochester, New York, where I was asked to speak in a secular college. Whenever I get a chance to speak in a public college or university I always take that opportunity. I figure that if the atheists can speak there, then, glory to God, we believers have a right to equal time!

There was a Christian club on campus, and so I was asked to come and minister. When I walked inside the chapel where the meeting was supposed to be held, I had two guys with me. They were the 1978 and 1979 world champion tag-team kickboxers. Now tag-team kick-boxing has been outlawed because too many people were getting hurt.

These two former kickboxers had gotten saved and filled with the Holy Ghost through our ministry. They travel with us occasionally, and we always have a blast. They just happened to be with me on this trip to Rochester.

As we walked into that meeting, I noticed that there were about three people in the congregation. There was one guy sitting there with an acoustic guitar, strumming along and quietly singing "Kum-ba-ya." I looked around at the walls, and there were signs everywhere welcoming Eastman Curtis to the campus - and only three people had showed up to hear me! They were there with their Bibles open, all excited about hearing the Gospel.

Now when I hold a meeting at a secular college, I am really wanting "non-Christians" to come. Since this was not a Christian school, I knew there had to be unbelievers everywhere. So I called my two kickboxer friends over and said to them, "Come on, I've got a plan."

I turned to the guy playing the guitar and told him, "Just go ahead and make your announcements right now. I'm gonna go get a crowd."

I walked over to the cafeteria, which was just cram-packed with humanity. I stood on a chair and yelled, "Hey, can I have your attention, please? Attention, attention! Ladies and gentleman, for today and today only, we have with us the 1978-79 world champion kickboxers!"

Everyone in the place started screaming, "Yeahhh!"

"They are about to put on an exhibition you won't want to miss," I said, "It's right over there in the auditorium. Follow me."

As I was leaving, I looked behind me at my two friends, and their eyes were bugging out.

"What're we doing?" they wanted to know.

I looked behind them, and I saw that there were at least 150 people following us. I felt like the pied piper.

So we all piled into the chapel. I left the doors open, cranked up the P.A. system, duct-taped the volume controls to ten, and started yelling into the mike, "Okay, gang, let's have church!"

Now these two friends of mine hadn't practiced kickboxing in years. They weren't even warmed up. But since I had put them on the spot, they just started beating the mess out of each other. While they were doing that, and people were filling up the place, I started yelling, "FIGHT! FIGHT! THERE'S A FIGHT IN HERE!"

You know, a fight will draw a crowd every time. So more people started running from everywhere.

Those two guys went at it for a while. Then when they got done, they took the microphone and said, "I want you to know that Jesus Christ has changed our lives. Now Eastman Curtis is gonna get up there and tell you more about Him."

I got up and preached for five minutes. At the end of that five-minute message, a hundred college students gave their hearts to Jesus Christ!

If you won't be afraid of what other people think about you, you can change the world. When the Holy Spirit tells you to do something, don't hesitate - just do it.

Of course, you must always be sure that what you're experiencing is a prompting of the Holy Spirit and not just a guilt trip or feelings of condemnation.

How can you tell the difference? It's easy. If it's the Spirit of God, then you will feel good about it. You will feel like saying, "Oh, yeah!" You will have supernatural confidence. Like the psalmist, you will feel like you can run through a troop and leap over a wall (Psalm 18:29, KJV). You may even feel like you can leap over a troop and run through a wall! Actually, you can do either.

How can you tell whether a prompting is from the Lord or whether you are just under a spirit of self-obligation? When the Lord prompts you to do something, there is always a sense of joy. It just begins to bubble up on the inside and flow on the outside.

In my own case, when the Holy Spirit has come upon me, I have found myself doing some of the craziest things - in the natural - that I have ever done in my life.